By comparison to Mozart's later concertos or even to those of J. C. Bach, these are slight works.
It has generally been considered by critics to be one of Shakespeare's slightest works.
Yet even slight works of art can have a potent effect.
But in doing so, he has included some very slight works.
He also asked Mr. Geldzahler to bring works by Dale Chihuly, whose fantasies in glass are among the slightest works in the exhibition.
When they were across I turned the column down the left bank of Elk River, and driving the enemy from some slight works near Estelle Springs, regained the Winchester road.
I built slight works for my men; the enemy came up to them, and were driven back.
Doing the best it could in a weak year, the New York Film Festival was loaded with intriguing but slight works that might not have made it against tougher competition.
As with so much of what he did, it's hard to know what he meant, and that mystery imbues these otherwise slight works with philosophical intrigue.
Three slighter works repeat often-told stories.